Synodic month length 29.81 days

Length of current 1100 lunation is 29 days, 19 hours and 26 minutes. This is the year's longest synodic month of 2089. It is 28 minutes longer than next lunation 1101 length.

Lunation length longer than mean

Length of current synodic month is 6 hours and 42 minutes longer than the mean length of synodic month, but it is still 21 minutes shorter, compared to 21st century longest.

Lunar orbit position on 3 January 2089 Monday 12:00 UTC

True anomaly ∠160.8°

This lunation true anomaly is ∠160.8°. At the beginning of next synodic month true anomaly will be ∠185.7°. The length of upcoming synodic months will keep decreasing since the true anomaly gets closer to the value of New Moon at point of perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).

Moon after perigee

6 days after point of perigee on 28 December 2088 at 06:32 in ♋ Cancer. The lunar orbit is getting wider, while the Moon is moving outward the Earth. It will keep this direction for the next 7 days, until it get to the point of next apogee on 11 January 2089 at 04:23 in ♑ Capricorn.

Distance to Moon 381 521 km

Moon before ascending node

11 days after its descending node on 23 December 2088 at 02:43 in ♈ Aries, the Moon is following the southern part of its orbit for the next day, until it will cross the ecliptic from South to North in ascending node on 4 January 2089 at 12:45 in ♎ Libra.

Draconic month

Moon before southern standstill

7 days after previous North standstill on 27 December 2088 at 04:20 in ♊ Gemini, when Moon has reached northern declination of ∠18.933°. Next 5 days the lunar orbit moves southward to face South declination of ∠-18.913° in the next southern standstill on 9 January 2089 at 11:54 in ♐ Sagittarius.